ANECDOTES OF THE PASSIONS AND VICISSITUDES OF
GAMESTERS. The gaming table : its votaries and victims, in all times and countries,
especially in England and in France. Vol. 2 | ||
THE BITER BITTEN.
A certain duchess, of a ci-devant lord-lieutenant, who expected to make a pigeon of Marshal Blucher, was fleeced of £200,000; to pay which her lord was obliged to sell a great part of his property, and reside on the continent.
ANECDOTES OF THE PASSIONS AND VICISSITUDES OF
GAMESTERS. The gaming table : its votaries and victims, in all times and countries,
especially in England and in France. Vol. 2 | ||